"stark impression" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a strong and clear impression or image that stands out starkly against something else. Example: The painting left a stark impression on me with its bold strokes and intense colors, standing out amongst the other more subdued pieces in the gallery.
The punishment leaves its own stark impression.
In the first tour of the site by a Western journalist, amid the din of breaking rock deep beneath the earth, the stark impression was of how big science has become since the first palm-size atom smasher was built half a century ago.
Their maternal uncle Francis Ingleby, a Catholic priest, was hanged, drawn and quartered at York in 1586, a fact which in the opinion of historian and author Antonia Fraser, "could hardly have failed to leave a stark impression upon the Wintour family".
These aren't cuts by rising acts looking to make a stark first impression.
quantum-confined Stark effect.
We love stars doing impressions, so check out Game of Thrones actor Sophie Turner, aka Sansa Stark, doing an impression of Jon Snow and Justine Bieber.
Performed in isolation, her works often give the impression of stark originality.
Spurs had moved the ball with speed and thought in that opening period but the deterioration was so stark it left the impression of a side that had hit the wall.
This coziness was in stark contrast to our initial impression of the town.
Long's text pieces – always in a stark sans-serif font – record impressions gleaned or landmarks passed on his treks across moors, mountain ranges, and even continents ("Glow worms… watching moonlight turn into dawn… the footpath passing through a cleft tree," runs part of Eight Days in the Shirakami Mountains, Aomori, Japan, 1997).
When the "Old Man" smiles, our narrator tells us, "stretching them wrinkles horizontal gived the impression of him being plumb stark mad.
